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September 19, 2010

Weekends are usually very busy for us. Shopping, Cleaning, Errands and trying to knock some things off my never ending To-Do List. This weekend was not much different, but to be honest, if it was any different I would not be able to enjoy it. I just love getting things done, call me crazy.

We started by bringing Katie's Car to get serviced, followed by a visit to Costco (looove that place!), Carwash for me and an early lunch, where I got this disgusting Diet Coke (see picture below german version):

Seriously? Lemon Crap on the sides of the glass and FOUR floating leaves that could not be identified? What the heck? How can you not see all this when you fill the glass? Although it was pretty gross and we complained, we did crack up a lot over it.

After lunch we went to another one of my favorites: Target (who doesn't love Target?), where I scored these Halloween Salt and Pepper Shakers for $5 (picture again below under german version):

The night ended with Dinner at Macaroni Grill and a movie with Katie's Mom. We watched "Easy A" and although I thought it would be a stupid Highschool Movie, it was the funniest movie I've seen all year. I laughed so hard that I cried, it was dang funny. Love this part of the movie (totally see myself doing this when no one is watching:)):

We only have three holidays at work this year and two of them fall on a Friday/ Monday, so we would have a long weekend. We immediately took advantage of this 3-day Labor Day weekend, since this almost feels like a vacation, you don't get very far with five vacation days a year either (oh how I miss Germany and its six weeks paid vacation time!).

We left Friday night after work and the six hours to San Diego felt like 12 because we were exhausted!

Saturday we went to Sea World, where we enjoyed the sunny skies and 82 degrees, we still had about 107 degrees in Phoenix! Unfortunately we underestimated the sun and after a few short hours we were both pretty sunburned. Yeah... ever heard of sunscreen?:)

Sea World was incredible and I didn't think that I would like it that much. We took two tours behind the scenes of the park, where we fed turtles, touched sharks and dolphins and even got lucky when we got the chance to see the flamingos, who were brought from one part of the park to another area and who walked in a parade straight to us, where we could touch them as well.

We also watched the many incredible animal Shows, but my favorite memory will always be the feeding and touching of the dolphins... what an experience!

The next day we went to San Diego's Harbor where not much was going on, so we decided to drive to Coronado, a little Isle that you can reach by driving over a giant bridge from Downtown San Diego. We had a great lunch in town and walked to the beach afterwards, where we admired the beautiful mansions and relaxed on the beach. Sit me on a beach and I'm in heaven! The smell of the water, the sounds of the waves and to look at the horizon and see nothing but water and a few boats... what else do you need? I love it!

Our last stop was at Coronado Harbor, which was a dream as well! You could not only see the harbor but also San Diego's Skyline on the other side. There were little Souvenirshops and a Rock n Roll Band played loud music where a lot of people and children danced to...in the middle of the day! I could've stayed there all day long, enjoying the view of the city and the livelyness of the people around, it was magical!

It was an awesome trip and we enjoyed every single minute of it and it felt so good to get away from the daily routine.